Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance Required: Active DoW Secret Security Clearance
Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time
LaunchTech is a veteran-owned company that prides itself on delivering service before self and excellence in all we do. We are seeking dynamic professionals who embody our core values of Integrity, Commitment, and Excellence to join our growing Crew in support of our customers across the federal, state, and commercial markets.
If you are a senior project delivery leader who thrives at the intersection of portfolio management, team leadership, and mission execution, this role was built for you. This role directly supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract, where your oversight drives the successful delivery of future space capabilities and mission-critical requirements across the MDSEA enterprise.
What You'll Be Doing
The Missile Defense Space Enterprise Architecture (MDSEA) Project Delivery and Portfolio Manager supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract. This position provides functional leadership and oversight across project management delivery within the MDSEA organization, ensuring the successful delivery of future space capabilities demonstration, holistic portfolio health, and delivery of mission-critical requirements supporting the MDSEA enterprise. The candidate will:
Be a working lead, managing their share of the projects, along with the PjM team
Directly oversee, mentor, and lead the team of MDSEA Project Managers (PjMs) while serving as the direct manager for the Release Train Engineer (RTE), providing support and guidance while empowering the RTE to independently own, execute, and facilitate Agile Release Train (ART) operations, Release Train Board (RTB) cadences, and continuous flow.
Conduct recurring performance evaluations, routine one-on-one check-ins, and ongoing professional development for team members, establishing training plans, providing functional guidance, and fostering continuous skill growth across the project delivery team.
Serve as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for baseline portfolio management labor, managing Documentation requirements and Individual Work Authorizations Documents (iWADs), budget planning, auditing timecard charging accuracy, and conducting monthly Cost and Schedule Variance analyses.
Support the timely development, review, and submittal of recurring monthly program deliverables, including Task Order Status Reports (TOSR), and applicable Service Summary Item metrics, and executive status briefings.
Ensure schedule compliance and governance across MDSEA efforts, partnering with and actively supporting the RTE who maintains the MDSEA program roadmap, and milestones across the MDSEA enterprise.
Oversee and support project teams through the project lifecycle, ensuring adherence to scope, cost, schedule, and quality standards established by the Task Order.
Oversee the intake, evaluation, and execution of new project requests, Technical Direction Letters (TDLs) and Task Change Requests (TCRs) using MDSEA enterprise workflow tools.
Support and oversee the proper development of Statements of Work (SOWs), Basis of Estimates (BOEs), and project Bills of Materials (pBOM), ensuring adherence to contractual process controls.
Partner with and actively support the MDSEA Risk, Issue, and Opportunity process across the portfolio, ensuring project teams identify and track mitigation strategies, participate in MDSEA risk reviews, and escalate critical blockers to Task Order leadership.
Facilitate, lead, or ensure representation at mandatory project and engineering milestone boards.
Foster close collaboration between functional teams, mission customers, establishing comprehensive communication plans and maintaining transparent stakeholder engagement.
Demonstrate multi-disciplinary…